Foreign Affairs (1973)
Hugh Fleetwood
With a new preface by the author
Book Description
Paolo Levin is an accomplished American concert pianist living in Rome. Intensely self-absorbed, Paolo values his independence above all else and has no desire to be trapped in the commitments of a relationship. But he can’t seem to shake off the attentions of Ralph, a sinister crippled boy who is in love with Paolo and persists in stalking him.
One morning Paolo awakes in terror to find himself handcuffed to his bed with Ralph looming over him. Paolo’s most precious parts – his hands – are to be forfeit unless he submits to Ralph’s bizarre demands . . .
Described by one critic as “the master of modern horror,” Hugh Fleetwood is the award-winning author of more than twenty volumes of fiction, including the classics The Girl Who Passed for Normal and The Order of Death. Foreign Affairs (1973), his third novel, is a literary thriller whose unexpected twists and turns will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the shocking conclusion.
Hugh Fleetwood
With a new preface by the author
Book Description
Paolo Levin is an accomplished American concert pianist living in Rome. Intensely self-absorbed, Paolo values his independence above all else and has no desire to be trapped in the commitments of a relationship. But he can’t seem to shake off the attentions of Ralph, a sinister crippled boy who is in love with Paolo and persists in stalking him.
One morning Paolo awakes in terror to find himself handcuffed to his bed with Ralph looming over him. Paolo’s most precious parts – his hands – are to be forfeit unless he submits to Ralph’s bizarre demands . . .
Described by one critic as “the master of modern horror,” Hugh Fleetwood is the award-winning author of more than twenty volumes of fiction, including the classics The Girl Who Passed for Normal and The Order of Death. Foreign Affairs (1973), his third novel, is a literary thriller whose unexpected twists and turns will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the shocking conclusion.
reviews
‘I must repeat my admiration for the high promise shown in Foreign Affairs. Hugh Fleetwood appears much the most talented young English author I’ve come across in some time.’ – Peter Prince, New Statesman
‘A gripping novel.’ – Books and Bookmen
‘A rich, gruesome, irresistibly readable book.’ – Sunday Times
‘Mr. Fleetwood can write like a dream ... and really get into your head. He reaches down and stirs up with venomous delight the nameless, faceless things swimming far below the levels of consciousness.’ – Scotsman
‘A gripping novel.’ – Books and Bookmen
‘A rich, gruesome, irresistibly readable book.’ – Sunday Times
‘Mr. Fleetwood can write like a dream ... and really get into your head. He reaches down and stirs up with venomous delight the nameless, faceless things swimming far below the levels of consciousness.’ – Scotsman
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BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 194391009X ISBN-13: 978-1943910090 $17.99 US, 174 pp. Trade paper Published 2015 |
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Hugh Fleetwood was born in England in 1944. At the age of 18 he went to live in France; at 21, he moved to Italy, where he remained for the next fourteen years. He had his first exhibition in 1970 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto; in 1971 he published his first novel, A Painter of Flowers, for which he also designed the jacket, as he did for his second novel, The Girl Who Passed for Normal, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. His fifth novel, The Order of Death, was made into a film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon (Johnny Rotten). His most recent one-man show, at the Calvert Gallery in London, coincided with the reissue of six of his books by Faber & Faber’s Finds series. In 2012, he was cited in David Malcolm’s The British and Irish Short Story Handbook as a key figure in the development of the English short story; his most recent publication, “How the Story Ends”, will appear in the anthology Speak My Language in November 2015. Hugh Fleetwood currently lives in London.